Close your eyes for a moment and just listen.
What did you hear? Even when we
are in a "quite" environment, so many sounds bombard our ears; the
dull drone of machines, distant voice carried on the wind, birdsongs, telephones,
construction noises, traffic … . It seems impossible to escape external noise
in this modern world.
But if we can withdraw our minds
from these external sounds, we will hear much subtler, inner vibration. In the
absolute stillness of soundproof chambers in scientific laboratories, insulated
from all external noise, some people have been able to hear some of these
internal sounds: a high-pitched resonance, and a deep throbbing - the vibration
of their own nervous system, and the pulsing of their blood.
Thousands of years ago, yogis
meditating in the utter silence of caves or mountains, were able to withdraw
their minds not only from external sounds, but from the noises of the physical
body as well. They could then focus their minds on centers of subtle energy
inside them. Along the spine and in the brain, there are seven psychic energy
centers or Chakras' which control the functioning of mind and body. Most human
beings are unaware of these Chakras, but when the mind and body become more
refined through meditation, these subtle energy centers can be perceived and
controlled.
The Chakras have been described
by enlightened saints and mystics of all spiritual paths and cultures - by
Buddhists ancient Chinese, Hindus, Tantriks, Christian and Jewish mystics,
Sufis, and Native American Indians. Recently, science has detected them as well.
Sensitive instruments have measured energy emanations (beyond frequencies are
known to come from biochemical, anatomic systems), surging from the surface of
the body at the exact locations of the Chakras'.
Those ancient yogis, who directed
their inner ear towards these energy centers, were able to hear the subtle
vibration in all. Then they spoke them aloud, and each of these subtle inner
sounds became one letter of the Sanskrit alphabet.
Thus, the Sanskrit language -
sometimes called "the mother of all languages" - was developed from
the externalized sounds of our subtle internal energies. It is the human body's
eternal song.
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